European Tour Golf - Race To Dubai betting

Ian Poulter has emerged as the clear favourite to win this year`s Race to Dubai and is looking to become the second English player in two years to top the European Tour`s money list. Poulter has started the season very well, coming second in the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship before winning the very lucrative WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship. He has moved up to fifth in the world rankings and is 7/2 to win the Race to Dubai this year.

Another Englishman, Paul Casey, is the second favourite. Casey is ranked sixth in the world and has also got off to a bright start this year, finishing as runner-up to Poulter in the Match Play Championship. He won three times last year, taking the Abu Dhabi Championship, the BMW PGA Championship and the Houston Open, and seems to improve every year. A similar step-up in performance could see him win the Race to Dubai and he is priced at 11/2 with Boylesports to do so.

Lee Westwood, last year`s winner of the competition, is available at 7/1 with Ladbrokes and his hard to ignore after his showing at the end of last season. Martin Kaymer is generally available at the same price as Westwood and has already won the Abu Dhabi Golf Championship this year. Last year Kaymer beat Westwood in a playoff for the Open de France title and the twenty-six year-old seems likely to improve.

Rory McIlroy finished as runner-up in the Race to Dubai last year and is 9/1 with Bet365 to go one better this year and win. The twenty year-old from Northern Ireland made a good start to the season with a third-placed finish in Abu Dhabi, but then finished T-5th while defending his Dubai Desert Classic title. McIlroy also underperformed at the Match Play Championship and has been struggling with a back injury.

Another former winner, Robert Karlsson, is next at 20/1. Karlsson won the Race to Dubai in 2008 and has already won the Qatar Masters this year after returning from an eye injury that kept him out for most of the 2009 season. A return to the form he showed in 2008 would make Karlsson a big threat once more. Other former winners taking part include Padraig Harrington at 40/1 with Ladbrokes, Ernie Els at 66/1 and Retief Goosen at 80/1.

The last event in the Race to Dubai is the Dubai World Championship, which will be held this year for only the second time at the Jumeirah Golf Estates in the UAE.

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